• Security/physical: Healthcare, financial security.
• Family and friends: can spend time with loved ones
• A feminist existing in the personal and the political.
• Rich: To love with all my intelligence
• Rilke: "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Professionally (if in bureaucracy): transformative feminist leadership.
• Make time to write; involved in projects as knowledge worker.

• January 25 - Virginia Woolf's birthday
• August 8 - Midnight appointee anniversary in the bureaucracy
• October 16 - The day I visited Rachel Ruysch in Den Haag
• November 27 - Anniversary with Kevin

• Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed-
• On Sundays We Play (ed.) by Kristine Aquino, James Loganathan, Selvaraj Velayutham, Amanda Wise-
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson-
• The Fight for Freedom: Remembering Bataan and Corregidor by Antonio A. Nieva-
• Career and Family by Claudia Goldin
• All About Love: New visions by bell hooks-
• The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie-B Parson-
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz-
• Unbecoming by Angeli Lacson-
• Life-Times of Becoming Human by Neferti X.M. Tadiar-
  • Re-read
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Strange Intimacies by Zea Asis-
• Bayani Biographies: Teresa Magbanua by Na...

• Give yourself permission to care for yourself like you care for a friend. With empathy, compassion, and patience.
• You have a deep sense of responsibility for other people. This will exhaust you and eat you up, so boundaries and travel is a must to remind you that no matter how embodied you feel in your situation, these are all temporary. Travel is a death rehearsal. You are insignificant in the scale of the world.
• By hook or by crook, take vacations to do nothing. "--to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."
• Be selfish and schedule a vacation earlier than midyear. You usually have a mini or major burn out by June.
• On vacations, play Nina Simone. I wish I ...

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.” (Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own)

• 07.2016 - Banaue-Batad-Sagada-Baguio
• 06.2017 - Ho Chi Minh City
• 08.2017 - Bohol-Siquijor-Dumaguete
• 07.2018 - Silay-Guimaras-Iloilo-Bacolod
• 10.2018 - Singapore Sports Tour
• 06.2019 - Siargao-Surigao
• 09.2019 - Hyderabad
• 06.2021 - Berlin
• 07.2021 - Malta
• 03.2022 - Alibijaban Island, Quezon-San J...

• Where the WSAP Conference will be
• Marine protected areas
• Lake Sebu
• Tacloban
• Bicolandia
• Balangiga, Eastern Samar
• Verde Island
• Tubbataha, if possible